 I took several turns in a berceau or covered walk of acacias which commands a prospect of the country, the lake and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene: the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all Nature was...  New Biographies of Illustrious Men - Page 2641857 - 408 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Albert Barnes - History - 1868 - 468 pages
...silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not describe the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame," etc. — Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq., vol. i., p. 170, ed. Dublin, 1796. In illustration... | |
 | Charles Knight - Autobiography - 1868 - 506 pages
...The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Historians - 1869 - 462 pages
...The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the...my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober • I have followed the judicious precept of the Abbe' de Mably, (Maniere d'ecrire l'Hist., p. 110,)... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reilected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled,... | |
 | English authors - English literature - 1869 - 458 pages
...The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1871 - 604 pages
...writing the last sentence of the 'Decline and Fall' on his terrace at Lausanne, 'a sober melancholy spread over my mind by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave aof an old and agreeable companion, and that, whatever might be the fate of my History, the life of... | |
 | John Seely Hart - English literature - 1872 - 654 pages
...water.*, ami all nature was silent. I will DO; di?seml>le the first emotions of joy on the reonery of шу freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame....mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting 1еато of an old and agreeable companion, and that, whatsoever might lie the future fate of my history,... | |
 | John Seely Hart - English literature - 1872 - 650 pages
...the first emotion! of juy on lin ч1' "\''i \ "1 ту freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of uiv fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had takeu an everlasting leave of an old and agreeAble companion, and that, whatsoever might ho the future... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - Biography - 1872 - 740 pages
...The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters ) and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1872 - 786 pages
...The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of jcy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled,... | |
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